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@HoskhMatriarch
Thanks for posting these interesting examples.

I was thinking the same thing -- I'm going into (the) house might become I'm going intohouse , but it might as well become I'm goinginto house . But then again, this depends on word order, right? into is not going to appear as a noun suffix all of a sudden. You're suggesting that into , once it turn...

Hello, as explained in the ACK on p. 105, languages can be seen as going through a cycle of agglutinative -> fusional -> isolating typology, at least in the long-term. Here is another Q&A discussing the matter: https://www.quora.com/Historical-Linguistics/Can-languages-cycle-from-inflected-to-isolat...